Chapter 8: Abyss God! Activate!

【Player Nickname: Wei Wang Ren#9527】

【Player Level: Lv1 (Each level-up grants one freely allocatable attribute point)】

【Strength: 10 (Top-tier professional boxer level)】

【Constitution: 10 (Top-tier long-distance runner level)】

【Agility: 10 (Top-tier parkour athlete level)】

【Intelligence: 11 (This is no ordinary person, but the system is somewhat skeptical of this evaluation due to long-term neurosis)】

【Spiritual Power: 35 (The average value is 5, the maximum for a normal person is 10, are you really human?)】

【Charisma: 5 (Your appearance is fresh and pleasant to look at, but your bizarre behavior causes your charisma value to continuously decline)】

Wu Wang saw this and couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.

How does this mere game interface dare to comment on his face and behavior?

Could it possess independent consciousness?

Without the slightest hesitation, Wu Wang slowly bent down and stripped completely naked; in the dark space, no one appreciated his sharply defined muscle lines.

He then proceeded to do calisthenics on his own.

The muzzle danced around, aiming everywhere.

About ten minutes later, he glanced at his personal panel again and found that one of the values had changed.

【Charisma: 4 (What the hell are you doing! Where are propriety and shame? Where is civilized quality? Damn bastard!)】

"OK, so it really has some consciousness; this is interesting. Is it AI self-evolution or some biological consciousness taking over this system?" Wu Wang put on his pants with a blank expression and pondered.

But no matter how much he shouted in the dark space afterward, no voice answered him.

It seems the existence of this consciousness is somewhat subtle.

Wu Wang did not continue trying to trigger the system consciousness, but instead looked further down at the personal panel information.

【Inventory: Gaoshan High School Uniform】

【Skill Slots: Shadow Self-Combat Technique, Gaze of Truth】

"Hmm? What the hell are these skills?" Wu Wang temporarily ignored the strange uniform in the equipment slot and instead curiously clicked to open the introductions for those two inexplicable skills.

【Shadow Self-Combat Technique (Active): You can exchange the reality and illusion of any part of your body with your shadow, consuming 5 Qi per second, no cooldown (Player Qi value = Spiritual Power points × 10)】

【Note: Please, another me!】

This shadow-related skill must have been obtained from the previous dungeon; when forcibly logging out, Wu Wang also heard the sound of the hidden condition being met.

That problem dungeon, full of bugs and with no way out, likely had the hidden condition of ghost-catching.

After all, this should have been impossible to achieve.

【Gaze of Truth (Passive): This will allow you to see through a certain truth, turning false things and twisted missions into their true appearance】

【Note: %@&# is watching you from the abyss】

【Oh God! I am gradually understanding everything!】

The original mission provided by the twisted dungeon.

And it's a damn passive skill.

This doesn't sound like good news.

"Is this damn skill some curse given to me by that creepy Ke Zong? And it's watching me from some abyss?" Wu Wang complained with a strange expression: "Are you the Abyss God?"

Unfortunately, he had not yet experienced other dungeons.

He wasn't very clear on what this so-called twisted mission was actually about.

Wu Wang simply decided to look at other things on the panel first.

Hoo—

With a thought, the Gaoshan High School Uniform from the inventory appeared in his hand.

He raised his eyebrows slightly, showing a surprised expression; he didn't expect items in the inventory to appear out of thin air.

"I have a storage ring too! Pity I'm missing an old grandpa who can store fire and teach me alchemy," Wu Wang lamented.

Since 【Shadow Self-Combat Technique】 was a hidden reward, this uniform must be the so-called 【Compensation Reward】.

Flipping it over to examine, the uniform was slightly worn; the school emblem on the chest and the four characters "Gaoshan High School" on the back were somewhat faded from washing, obviously indicating its original owner's family conditions were not good, unable to afford a new uniform and forced to keep washing this single one.

【Gaoshan High School Uniform: Wear it at midnight and stand in any school campus to activate a directional dungeon】

【Note: Hide! Hide quickly! Don't let it see me!】

Wu Wang was somewhat surprised by this.

He had thought it was some kind of defensive gear, but it turned out to be a key to open a new dungeon.

"Indeed, the sense of incongruity is still very severe..."

From the moment he entered the tutorial dungeon until Ke Zong, with red eyes, came to spy, Wu Wang always felt something was wrong.

Until now, seeing the effect and note of the uniform.

He finally understood where the sense of incongruity came from.

"The information before was too scarce; we didn't know the identity of the 【Ghost】, why it hid in the shadows was unclear, and there was no reason for the classroom lights to flicker; now I understand, it never belonged to that dungeon in the first place!" Wu Wang's brain raced.

Even the trashiest game manufacturers in reality know to have a game plot or set up a background story; at the very least, they must provide some character identities.

But the problem dungeon just now had nothing.

As soon as one entered, ghosts killed indiscriminately, and the clearance condition was a dead-end loop.

It was as if the entire dungeon's purpose was simply to kill everyone.

Even Hidetaka Miyazaki isn't this heartless!

This Spiritual Disaster game is so awesome; it shouldn't have such a crude dungeon.

Unless the lecture hall and the 【Ghost】 were forcibly pieced together!

There is no connection between the two of them!

"The 【Ghost】 should have been part of Gaoshan High School, not that strange staircase classroom." Wu Wang narrowed his eyes, examining the school uniform in his hand.

He had no way of knowing the cause behind all these abnormalities.

Or rather, if he wanted to figure it out, he would have to go to the so-called "Gaoshan High School" and investigate.

Thinking of this, Wu Wang couldn't help but smile faintly:

"Heh, isn't this purely a fishing trap? Only an idiot would fall for it! Do I look like an idiot?"

Whatever existence capable of altering the dungeon structure, whether the work of someone or the influence of some item.

At his current stage, he was best off avoiding contact with it.

【Undying】 was not invincibility.

It was far too simple to torture someone.

For instance—sealing oneself inside a cement barrel and sinking it to the ocean floor; the moment of resurrection would bring death by suffocation, an infinite loop.

In such a situation, 【Undying】 would become a true source of agony, unable to live and unable to die.

Swish—

Right after the mockery.

His right hand suddenly lifted, uncontrollable.

The red vertical pupil on the inner side of his wrist stared straight into Wu Wang's eyes; whispers began to echo within his skull, his mental consciousness started to sink and twist, and his skin itched as if organs not belonging to him were about to grow.

Wu Wang reacted immediately, shifting his gaze away.

Yet in that daze, he still saw that red vertical pupil blink at him.

The next second, he felt something sticky on his hand.

He looked down.

The school uniform, originally washed until it was pale, had changed.

Now the uniform was covered in various stains of paint, as if it had been thrown into a dye vat and stirred about haphazardly.

The most abundant color was red.

A foul, fishy stench also rose up, striking his nostrils and causing Wu Wang to frown instinctively; the familiar texture in his hand and his years of suicide experience instantly made a judgment.

The red was not paint.

It was blood.

And it was old blood that had been left for a long time.

Most crucially, the panel description of the school uniform had also changed—

【Blood-Stained School Uniform: The holder must reach any school environment and wear this garment within 24 hours.】

【Note: I was caught by it; now it's your turn... Run!】

【If the mission is not completed within the specified time, the dungeon will descend upon the closest person.】

【Target locked—Wu Xiaoyou】

Crack—

Wu Wang's fist clenched suddenly, making a sound; his fingernails dug deep into the flesh of his palm, enough to show that his emotional fluctuation at this moment was extremely intense.

Because of the person that name represented.

Only recently, she had prepared instant noodles of "Chicken Stewed with Mushrooms" for him at the dining table.

She was Wu Wang's second sister.

And also the only family he had in this world.

"You damn it! Did the Abyss God activate, huh?" Wu Wang's tone was somewhat gritted.

Never in a million years did he expect that the 【Vision of Truth】 provided by that bottom-feeding General Ke could distort items!

This damn skill was still 【Passive】, completely impossible to stop.

After taking a few deep breaths, his mindset returned to normal.

Wu Wang looked at the tattered school uniform in his hand, bared his teeth, and said viciously, "You want to see me go looking for fun so badly?"

"Fine! Then open your dog eyes wide and watch clearly how I speedrun Gaoshan High School!"